Organization

August 21

I am thankful for organization. People who are organized are to be admired. They organize their lives like they organize their closets: fastidiously. I wish I was more organized. I guess I have my moments but I'm not a particularly organized individual. Now, my wife Bebe is the epitome of organization. The accountant in her is very fastidious. My daughter Beth gets her organizational skills from her mom. When she was small, I played a game with her: she would arrange poker chips in order with all the blues together, the reds together and the whites together, in order, blue, red, then white. I would take the chips and mix the colors so there were other colored chips interspersed with the particular colors. It used to drive her batty. She couldn't let it be. She had to rearrange them in "proper" order.  I know, it was very cruel of me but I got some good laughs out of it. So, I suppose you can tell who the organized people in my family are. John, on the other hand, is a chip off the old block. Just so you know, people like John and I need people like Bebe and Beth in our lives or our lives would fall into disarray.

This is a photo of Bebe's paint rack with all the colors neatly arranged. How else would you expect her paints to be arranged! Now I wonder what would happen if I put a few blues in with the golds and a yellow or two by the blue? Hmm.

i am a very organized person

i am a very organized person

i do like to have control of my life

i place my socks on the floor near the bed

i don’t know why it fails to please the wife

shoes go by the door

shirts between the door and the bath

and pants closer to the toilet

which brings even more wifely wrath

but i am organized like her

only in a little different way

i know where everything is

(or i did until she cleaned up today).

© rt tulley